The Human Rights Law Centre has welcomed the Albanese Government announcement of plans to introduce a digital duty of care for social media platforms.

A new joint report from the Human Rights Law Centre and the University of Melbourne: Prison to Deportation Pipeline has found that visa cancellations on ‘character grounds’ have increased tenfold in the last ten years.

The Human Rights Law Centre has strongly condemned the NSW Premier Chris Minns’ latest attempt to stifle peaceful protest. 

Civil society groups have welcomed the Albanese Government’s appointment of Chris Evans as Australia’s first national, independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner.

The Human Rights Law Centre will give evidence to a Senate Inquiry today calling for the Albanese Government to strengthen their Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill.

Transparency International Australia and the Human Rights Law Centre are calling on the Albanese Government implement the inquiry’s recommendations in full. 

The Human Rights Law Centre calls on the Albanese Government to urgently reform whistleblower protection laws, after the High Court of Australia declined to hear tax office whistleblower Richard Boyle’s appeal.

The High Court of Australia has today ruled that forcing people released from immigration detention to wear ankle bracelets and live under curfews is unconstitutional.  

The Albanese Government is being urged to introduce new laws which would stop powerful corporations misusing Australia’s legal system to silence and intimidate community voices, by a coalition of 85 environmental, faith, community legal and human rights organisations.

The Human Rights Law Centre welcomes consultation from the Victorian Government on legislation to restrict the use of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) in workplace sexual harassment matters. 

As a twenty-four-hour protest led by refugees reaches 100 days, the Human Rights Law Centre is calling on the Albanese Government to provide permanent visas to the 8,500 people who have been stuck in visa uncertainty and limbo for the last 12 years.

The Human Rights Law Centre has condemned harsh new laws rushed through by the NT Government that will jail 10 year old children again. The laws, passed in the first parliamentary sitting week of the new government, will take the Northern Territory backwards and threaten a dangerous precedent for children’s rights and safety nationwide.